Mick Hartley

Better late than never, I suppose. From the Telegraph:

The Metropolitan Police has admitted that it failed to protect Jews from a “racist mob” at a Notting Hill restaurant.

Scotland Yard has apologised for the “distress” caused to the Israeli business owner and “wider Jewish community” over its policing of pro-Palestinian demonstrations last month.

The apology came after a cross-party group of 89 MPs and peers wrote to Sir Mark Rowley, the Met Commissioner, to express their “extreme concern” about the way protests outside the restaurant were policed.

They said the restaurant, Erev, and its takeaway counter, Miznon, in Notting Hill, co-founded by chef Eyal Shani, had been “targeted by extremists on seven occasions since August last year”.

The letter, seen by The Telegraph, goes on to detail one of the protests, which took place on Jan 9. The signatories said it amounted to “violent disorder” and left diners at the restaurant feeling intimidated.

The MPs and peers described how “around 50 protesters were allowed by police to stand close to the restaurant’s entrance, chanting violent and intimidating slogans amplified by loudspeakers and drums”.

Footage shared on social media at the time of the protest showed one activist proclaiming the “right to resist by any and all means necessary, for the full liberation and from the river to the sea”, to cheers from the crowd.

So what about all the other occasions when Jew-hating mobs have paraded through our cities? Or is just this one apology because MPs and peers wrote a letter? And have West Midlands police apologised yet for the Maccabi Tel Aviv debacle?